Hawaii Sand Festival & Sand Sculpture Contest

Aloha! Due to the flooding and losing a number of key members of the crew to other islands and the mainland. We’ve decided to take a sabbatical year.

We do recommend that everyone continue to practice and grow their sand castle/sculpture building skills. Choose a good day and go out with family, friends and people you’ve met at the contest. Enjoy a good swim and create a sand sculpture to the right of Pavilion’s or by Grandpa’s.

A big mahalo for the last 7 years of delight. It has been wonderful for Jeff and I to meet so many enthusiastic builders and to see keiki growing up learning to carve sand.

After a 1 year break we will regroup and ponder future contests. Maybe to the right of Pavilions to Blackpot (which is to the left of the pier) renovation will be complete and then anything is possible, who knows….

A big Aloha to you all!!!

In the The Garden Island Newspaper today it said this:

http://thegardenisland.com/news/local/dragons-turtles-mermaids-and-pigs-created-for-sculpture-contest-in/article_7e475650-b0da-504a-a458-fa53b6c1ac28.html

Coming soon to a beach near you (hopefully near you). To the left of the pier on the island of Kauai, Hawaii.

Aloha! Come, fulfill everyone’s age old dream to relax on a tropical island and build a sand castle. Build a sand sculpture with friends and family. Design and build a sculpture on your own or with a team. Use your imagination and hands to cast a castle, dolphin, mermaid, dragon, car, mountains, face, crashed cadillac, aliens or whatever and win an awesome prize. Your business can even donate a prize and be listed on this site. The music and sand sculpture contest is FREE and open to everyone of any age.

The event is from 11 am – 3 pm to the left of the Hanalei pier. Remember to bring sun block, drinking water and the whole family (a tent can also be a good sun block). You never know who you might see there. Please join us. Mahalo.

PS This year’s poster is below.

Aloha! Come, fulfill everyone’s age old dream to relax on a tropical island and build a sand castle. Build a sand sculpture with friends and family. Design and build a sculpture on your own or with a team. Use your imagination and hands to cast a castle, dolphin, mermaid, dragon, car, mountains, face, crashed cadillac, aliens or whatever and win an awesome prize. Your business can even donate a prize and be listed on this site. The music and sand sculpture contest is FREE and open to everyone of any age.

The event is from 11 am – 3 pm to the left of the Hanalei pier. Remember to bring sun block, drinking water and the whole family (a tent can also be a good sun block). You never know who you might see there. Please join us. Mahalo.

Timely article. Coco Zickos did this interview months ago and we forgot all about it till people mentioned seeing it in print today, now it’s online. Click the link below to read about the mysterious origins of the Sand Festival. The photos in the article are by the incredible photographer Kit Furderer. This years official photographer is Harneet Bajwa.

Hawaii Sand Festival and sand castle/sculpture contest coming this Saturday 11-4. Free to enter. Music. Fun. Fulfill your castle building wishes. Tell your friends.

http://www.midweekkauai.com/featured/the-sand-man-cometh/

We have various ways to sponsor this year’s Sand Festival and Castle/Sculpture Contest taking place on Saturday August 8th at Hanalei Beach Park.

Our goal for this year is to take this event to the next level and put it on the map to attract some of the world’s best sand sculptors. We would also like to be able to provide the winner with an all-expenses paid trip for two to the US Open Sand Sculpting Championship in San Diego, September 4th – 7th (Labor Day Weekend).

In addition to the Sponsorship Levels outlined HERE, we need as much help as we can get in the forms of in-kind donations (food, prizes, etc.) and manpower leading up to and on the day of the event. Please reach out to let us know how you’d like to help!

To learn more about how you can sponsor this year’s event, CLICK HERE.

The FREE 2015 Sand Festival and Sand Castle/Sculpture Contest will be on Sat, Aug 8th 11-4 PM this year. This event is about making something as amazing and transient as a top quarks, pions, mesons, w bozons and muons.

Mark it on the calendar. Let your friends know. Close your eyes and imagine what you will create this year. Make your plans. Architect your dream in sand. Design your amalgamation of calcium carbonate, volcanic glass and olivine particles in your mind then on paper and finally into a manifest creation with a team of your choosing at the Sand Festival. Reveal the ephemeral nature of reality for all to see. Like the forces of nature everyone is invited to come build, embellish and perhaps even demolish their magnum opus. !!!

A sand sculpture created by all these folks for American Savings Bank. Photo by Kit Furderer of KinebyDesign.com

This year’s photographer Kit Furderer donated his talents to documenting the 2014 Sand Festival and Sand Castle/Sculpture Contest. Kit has been a professional photographer for years in Hawaii and on the mainland. His design site is KineByDesign and here is his Kauai Wedding Photographer site.

Over 100 photos of the Sand Castle Contest in high resolution are here. They are also always available in the menubar above that says  Photos (Hi-Rez).

More info on the details of winners and photos of all entries for 2014 coming soon.